Regular readers will know that I was more than a little miffed when Councilwoman Maria Quinones-Sanchez bailed on the Friends of Overington Park’s Tree Planting, leaving me hungry for the cookies and orange juice she promised. But boy did she come through at last night’s town hall meeting. She promised better interaction with city agencies, a more streamlined communication with our civic associations, and attentiveness when residents bring problem properties to her attention. But she guaranteed tastiness coming through with that spread. If she never does another thing for Frankford(or ever starts), her heroics calling in the snack foods will long be remembered.
Freelance Journalist and All Around Awesome Guy Found Living in Frankford
Chris Wink appears to be quite awesome. Here he is being named one of the 100 top young journalists by UWire. He’s written for the Philadelphia Weekly. He has spoken at Temple’s 08 Commencement, and has been a guest on Fox 29 talking about politics and shit.
My father found him 3 days ago blogging about moving in, and I met his unphotoshopped self last night when he actually showed up at the halfway house Town Hall Meeting and talked about community involvement.
In all seriousness, I don’t usually call any non politician out by name, but on account of how he’s thrown himself up all over the internet, I just had to bring him up. I had always considered Frankford a hidden gem, that only I knew about because I grew up here. But apparently others are finding out too. That someone as cool as this made a (probably) rational choice to come stay here a while gives me a lot of hope, because the reasons he chose Frankford were the same as mine, and now that makes two of us. Now where’s my third?
[link] http://christopherwink.wordpress.com/
Real estate transactions
Real estate transactions in January in Frankford are listed below. Thanks to our friends at ReMax Cityspace.
5423 Mulberry St $148,900 |
880 E Sanger St $114,900 |
5246 Marlowe St $30,000 |
1231 Kenwyn St $62,000 |
956 Granite St $92,900 |
1670 E Cheltenham Ave $114,300 |
5117 Oxford Ave $107,000 |
2120 E Cheltenham Ave $26,000 |
1522 Church St $62,000 |
4600 Pilling St $166,500 |
5444 Charles St $110,000 |
2074 Carver St $34,000 |
1619 Brill St $36,317 |
5334 Akron St $125,000 |
2038 Granite St $20,750 |
Very important Town Hall Meeting Tuesday, February 3rd
There will be a town hall meeting tomorrow (February 3, 2009) at Saint Joachim’s Church from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM regarding the rehab situation in FKD. This is the meeting that the NE Times reported would take place. It is the meeting Frankford has been promised since the summer. And it must be important else they would have given the community proper notice so that all could attend. Apparently they do not want many of us to be there. Please come and show your interest.
Frankford home of the week
Today we are on the 1300 block of Harrison Street.